1. Compounds and Mixtures
Chemistry
Compounds
and Mixtures

2. 8F Compounds and Mixtures
Contents
8F Compounds and Mixtures
Comparing elements and compounds
Mixtures
Word equations
Summary activities

3. Properties of elements and compounds
Why is it safe to put sodium chloride on fish and chips…
…but not safe to use sodium and chlorine?

4. Atoms in elements and compounds
Elements are materials made up of one type of atom only.
The element, hydrogen, exists as molecules.
Each hydrogen molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms joined together. H
Compounds contain two or more different types of atom.
The compound, water, exists as molecules.
Each water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms joined to one oxygen atom.

5. Element or compound?

6. Making a compound – water
A compound is made when atoms of different elements react and join together.
For example, water is produced from the chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen.
hydrogen
oxygen
water + H O + H
Two hydrogen molecules react with one oxygen molecule to produce two molecules of water.
Why does water have different properties to its elements?

7. The Pop Test

8. Properties of a compound – carbon dioxide
A compound has different properties to the elements from which it is made because the atoms are joined differently.
carbon
oxygen
carbon dioxide +
Black solid used as fuel.
Colourless gas in which many substances burn.
Colourless gas used in fizzy drinks and fire extinguishers. + + O C

9. Look at the pictures below - is it an element or a compound?
Element or compound?
Look at the pictures below - is it an element or a compound?
Element
Element
Compound
Element
Compound

10. Actually this is neither an element or a compound - it is a mixture!
Element or compound?
How about this - element or compound?
Actually this is neither an element or a compound - it is a mixture!

11. 8F Compounds and Mixtures
Contents
8F Compounds and Mixtures
Comparing elements and compounds
Mixtures
Word equations
Summary activities

12. What is a mixture?
A mixture contains two or more substances that are mixed together
but have not reacted with each other.
Sea water is a mixture of salts, water and other substances.
A mixture is not the same as a compound:
The proportions of the substances in a mixture are not fixed.
The properties of a mixture are often an “average” of the
properties of its ingredients (e.g. a mixture of a black and white powder is grey).
3. The substances in a mixture are just mixed, not chemically joined, and so it is usually quite easy to separate the
ingredients (e.g. it is easy to get salt from sea water).

13. Mixture Example
E.g. a mixture of iron powder and sulphur powder will show properties of both iron and sulphur!
This means our mixture will contain grey magnetic bits of iron + yellow bits of sulphur

14. A compound is not a mixture
The atoms in a mixture of hydrogen gas and oxygen
gas, which have not reacted
with each other, look like this…
The atoms in water, the compound made when hydrogen and oxygen react and their atoms become chemically joined to each other, look like this…

15. Element, compound or mixture?

16. Element, compound or mixture?

17. 8F Compounds and Mixtures
Contents
8F Compounds and Mixtures
Comparing elements and compounds
Mixtures
Word equations
Summary activities

18. Writing a word equation
A word equation can be used to describe any chemical reaction, i.e. any process in which atoms become joined
in different ways.
The steps for writing a word equation are:
On the right-handside, put the name of the reactant(s).
If there are two or more reactants, link them with a + sign.
2. In the middle, write down an arrow ().
3. On the right-handside, put the name of the product(s).
If there are two or more products, link them with a + sign.

19. What is the word equation?
Lead reacts with oxygen to form lead oxide.
What is the word equation for this reaction?
lead oxygen  lead oxide
Why is lead oxide so different to both lead and oxygen?
The lead and oxygen don’t mix, they react to form lead oxide.
This means that the lead and oxygen atoms in the product are joined differently to the atoms in the reactants .

20. What is the word equation?
Write out word equations for the following chemical reactions.
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is heated to make calcium oxide and carbon dioxide.
Magnesium reacts with hydrochloric acid to make magnesium chloride and hydrogen.
Methane is burnt to make carbon dioxide and water.
calcium carbonate  calcium oxide +carbon dioxide
magnesium + hydrochloric acid  magnesium chloride + hydrogen
methane + oxygen  carbon dioxide + water

21. 8F Compounds and Mixtures
Contents
8F Compounds and Mixtures
Comparing elements and compounds
Compound names and formulae
Word equations
Mixtures
Summary activities

22. atom – The smallest particle that can exist on its own.
Glossary
atom – The smallest particle that can exist on its own.
boiling point – Temperature at which a pure liquid becomes a gas.
compound – Substance made up of two or more different types of atoms that are chemically joined together.
element – Substance made up of only one type of atom.
formula – The symbols and numbers that represent the ratio of different atoms in a substance.
immiscible – Liquids which do not mix.
miscible – Liquids which do mix.
mixture – Two or more substances that are mixed but
not chemically joined together.

23. Anagrams

24. True or false?

25. Multiple-choice quiz